Browse published material including veterinary books, periodicals and pamphlets.

Explore in here for early veterinary writing by the forefathers of the profession; descriptions of historic methods and cases; and anonymous backbiting between the professors of competing veterinary schools.

RCVS Vet History is a five year project, in which the historically rich, but previously untapped, collections of the RCVS will be preserved and made more accessible to the public. The project will culminate in two major public outputs...

Articles include: Lameness. Pathology of Spavin; Remarks on Tetanus; On the Pathological History of Glanders; A Letter from Mr. Mayhew. In Reply to Mr. Barlow’s Paper in Our Last Number; A Case of Partial Paralysis in a Bay Cob; Honourable Horse Dealers;…

Articles include: Lameness. Treatment of Spavin; A Visit to Alfort in 1844; Contributions to Zoological Anatomy; Extraordinary Mode of Taming and Breaking-In Horses; Singular Length of Interval Between the Births of Twin Calves; Cases of Strangulated Small Intestine in a Mare, and Broken Leg in a Bullock;…

Articles include: Lameness. Remedies for Spavin; On the Bony Diseases of the Hock; Intestinal Ansarca, with Ascites; Inversion of the Uterus in a Cow; Cases of Difficult Parturition in Cows; A Contrast; A Very Serious and Fatal Disease Among Sheep (Traumatic Erythema);…

Articles include: Lameness. Treatment of Spavin; Veterinary Obstetricy. Vaginal Cystocele, or Inversion of the Bladder; Forward Mouths for their Ages; Polypus in the Throat of a Heifer Eradicated by Torsion; The Hoddeson Agricultural Institution; Deformity of the Os Frontis from Glanders;…

Articles include: The Complete History of a Case of Nasal Gleet, Formerly, and by Some Even at the Present Day Called “Glanders”; Intus-Susception in a Cow; A Few Remarks on the Use of Sedatives and Toxicatives in Tetanus; Farther Remark on Breech Presentation in Cows;…

Articles include: Firing for Spavin; Curious Case of Volvulus Ilei; Opened Joint Successfully Treated with Bi-Chloride of Mercury; Case of Difficult Parturition in a Cow; Remarks on the Present State of Veterinary Affairs; Mr. Mayhew to the Editors of the “The Veterinarian”;

Articles include: Other Remedies for Spavin; Professor Sewell’s Introductory Lecture. Commencing the Session of the Royal Veterinary College for 1846-7; Interesting Case of Lameness from Disease of the Liver; Observations on the Horses of Canada; The Introduction of the Crotchet into Canine Obstetricy; and its Successful use in Several Cases of Parturition;…

Articles include: Memorial. To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart. Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Memorial of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Lameness in Horses. Neurotomy;
The Veterinary Profession;…

Articles include: Lameness in Horses. Ringbone; Observations on the Action of Ether and Chloroform on Animals; Retention of the Foetus in a Cow – Band or Ligament Across the Vagina at the Mouth of the Os Uteri – and Pleuro-Pneumonia; False labour; Extraction of Two Lambs, Two Heads Presenting Pains in a Heifer;…

Articles include: Lameness in Horses. Diseases of the Bursae Mucosae and Synovial Sheaths; Case of Diseased Kidney and Ruptured Stomach; Vermifuge Vapours. Ethers, Chloroform, Oil of Turpentine, or Rectified Oil of Amber, Used Singly or Combined, Effectual Therapeutic Agents for the Destruction of Strongylus and Filaria in the Bronchial Passages of Calves, through Nasal Inhalation;…

RCVS VET HISTORY is an RCVS Knowledge initiative, for the preservation and promotion of the historical collections of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, made possible with the support of The Alborada Trust.

The Alborada Trust is a charitable trust founded in 2001. Its aims are the funding of medical and veterinary causes, research and education – and the relief of poverty and human and animal suffering, sickness and ill-health. Charity Registration No 1091660

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Trust (trading as RCVS Knowledge) is a registered Charity No. 230886. Registered as a Company limited by guarantee in England and Wales No. 598443.